Papankusha Ekadasi
Pāpāṅkuśā Ekādaśī
Wednesday, October 17, 2029
Bengaluru, India
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*Showing Smārta date – Wednesday, October 17, 2029. Vaishnava observers fast Thursday, October 18, 2029 →
From the pañchāṅga
- Wed · 17 Oct · 5:23 AM
- Thu · 18 Oct · 6:38 AM
- Thu · 18 Oct · 6:38 AM
- Wed
- 17 Oct
- 5:23 AM
- Thu
- 18 Oct
- 6:38 AM
- Thu
- 18 Oct
- 6:38 AM
The fast
- at sunrise
- Wed · 17 Oct · 6:09 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Thu · 18 Oct · 6:38 AM – 9:07 AM
- at sunrise
- Wed
- 17 Oct
- 6:09 AM
- pāraṇa window
- Thu
- 18 Oct
- 6:38 AM – 9:07 AM
Many keep a stricter fast from sunset the evening before.
The 3-Day Observance Arc
Ekādaśī is a three-day discipline. Preparation begins on Daśamī.
Daśamī · Day of Preparation (Samyama)
Tuesday, 16 October 2029
Eat a single light sattvic meal before sunset. Avoid heavy grains, lentils, or eating late at night. Take a holy bath and resolve for the fast.
Ekādaśī · Day of Fast & Vigil (Vrata)
Wednesday, October 17, 2029 · Begins 6:09 AM (Sunrise)
Complete fast from sunrise to sunrise (water-only, fruits, or Nirjala as per capacity). Continuous prayer, chanting, and night vigil (Jāgaraṇa).
Dvādaśī · Breaking the Fast (Pāraṇā)
Thursday, 18 October 2029 · Pāraṇā Window: 6:38 AM – 9:07 AM
Morning bath, offer charity (dāna) to the needy or Brahmins, and break the fast strictly within the pāraṇā window before Dvādaśī ends.
Tulā Saṅkrānti
The Sun enters Tulā
Wednesday, 17 October 2029
The Sun crosses at 2:25 PM, your local time
The Sun enters Tulā (Libra), where day and night stand in balance. Kept as Tulā Saṅkrānti, and as Kati Bihu in Assam, a quieter festival of lamps in the fields and prayers for the ripening crop.
What is done, A bath in sacred water, the Tulā-snāna in the Kāverī is especially honoured, and charity.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
12:04 PM – 1:33 PM
7:38 AM – 9:07 AM
11:40 AM – 12:28 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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